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‘Hybrid Voices and Visions: Short Stories by E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker and Jackie Kay’ and Alan Sillitoe’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ in Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story, in Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story, ed. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm, Blackwell, 2008, pp.308-29, 409-16 ISBN 978 1 4051 4537 4.

‘Woven Figures: Seamus Heaney and Nationalist Tradition’ in Back to the Present: Forward to the Past. Irish Writing and History since 1798. Vol. I, eds. Patricia A Lycnch, Joachim Fischer and Brian Coates, Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi Press, 2006. ISBN 10: 90420 2036-9

‘Shadows on a Glass: Self-Reflexivity in the Fiction of Deirdre Madden’, in Critical Anthology for the Study of Modern Irish Literature ed. Maria Kurdi. (Budapest: Nemzeti Tankonyvkiado, 2003), pp.205-13.

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About Professor Michael Parker

Michael Parker works primarily as a freelance writer and lecturer, with specialist interests in Irish Literature, Romantic Literature, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry, Postcolonial Literatures, and Literature in Translation. He is currently employed as a Part-Time Tutor by Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education and in July 2016 was appointed Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University.